Changing skins?

[IronwallJackson]

Is there a way to change the appearance of a character's equipment once I've started a campaign? I was bummed out to see my jaunty starting hat get replaced by a real helmet, and my clothes were gone soon too.

[ajfusch]

No, the skins you can choose at the start are just for the start - that is until you equip them with different equipment. Each item has their own skin. You cannot change those.

You only keep the backpack (it's purely decorative and there are no backitems ingame) and the chosen colors for armor where there are parts shown in it. There are quite a lot of armor pieces that have a completely fixed color though.

[IronwallJackson]

So the cosmetic lore items are worthless then? What a shame.

[ajfusch]

They are not completely worthless - sometimes you run around without all armor slots filled for quite some time ...

There's also skins for the characters themselves, those stay. (but the horns count as a helmet :-( )

I admit, I was disappointed at first, too, but then again I'm happy each time I can upgrade my worn equipment and so I don't mind as much. And I've come to enjoy the equipment visually changing throughout a campaign. Unlike levels it's a kind of character growth that you can see.
But of course, I get your POV nevertheless.

I think the idea behind it is that the look should match the stats and names of items ... having a heavy metal helmet look like a little hat is something that's quite usual im MMOs but it *is* ridiculous when you think about it. (and if you don't just call it magic)
Oh, and there's so much work in the details, if you only looked at one set of armor you wouldn't see all of these!

Anyway, that's why you should unlock classes, locations, encounters and actual equipment before you spend points on the skins. AND the unlocked items have their own pretty skins, too. :-)

Shutting up now. ;-) Hope you have fun with the game despite that!

[IronwallJackson]

At least I only spent 2 lore on cosmetics.

[Rumors]

There should be a button in your inventory's equipment slots to show/hide equipment so you can see your cosmetic picks. Don't recall if it works on chest armor, but it definite;y works on helmets.

[IronwallJackson]

Originally posted by Rumors:

There should be a button in your inventory's equipment slots to show/hide equipment so you can see your cosmetic picks. Don't recall if it works on chest armor, but it definite;y works on helmets.

I'll take a look next time I play, thank you